What is Québécois Literature?: Reflections on the Literary History of Francophone Writing in Canada
ISBN: 9781781385760
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Literature; Canadian Studies;

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

The question 'What is Québécois literature?' may seem innocent and answerable, yet Rosemary Chapman's compelling study shows that to answer it is to chart the cultural history of French Canada, to put francophone writing in Canada in postcolonial context and to ask whether literary history, with its focus on the nation, is in fact obsolete. This remarkable book will be compulsory reading for scholars well-versed in francophone postcolonial studies and will also act as an ideal introduction for Anglophone scholars of Canadian literature.

Rosemary Chapman is Professor of Francophone Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her previous books include 'Between Languages and Cultures: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009).

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